allied
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- adjective
- /ˈæl.aɪd/
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- Instead, Michelangelo, like other architects, came to the profession with design experience in an allied field, which could be put to use in architecture.
To us, evil and ugliness seem indissolubly allied.
- To us, evil and ugliness seem indissolubly allied.
- But there was an ethic in alchemy, too, that was allied in part complexly with the whole Judeo-christian tradition.
Examples
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Brown is particularly interested in Barthes's critical encounters with semiology, psychoanalysis, political critique, narratology, and allied disciplines.
Academic text (1993) -
Successful bids included an interesting mix of firms, including seven in the agro-allied field, four in commerce and distribution, five in hotels and tourism.
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All the sailors were black and white: members of her lineage or of closely allied families.
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That might pose a new threat to England from the north, especially if the Scots had a Stewart Crown allied to the French.
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The HDCC comprises community volunteers who represent medicine, nursing, social work, the clergy, allied health professionals, and the general public.
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One of the ways that the discipline has developed is a much greater focus on sophisticated historical analysis, of a kind that can only be developed through training or prolonged engagement with scholarship in history and allied disciplines.
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We ourselves, our souls, the seats of our consciousness, are immaterial spirits allied in their nature to this immaterial True Being.
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It is "precisely a recognition of the historical context of all religious texts and the allied recognition of the historical distance of all such contexts from the contemporary interpreter" that forces the problems of interpretation to the center of the theological task.
Academic text (1993) -
The main functions of the NCTE will be to prepare norms, standards, and guidelines for teacher education; to provide for essential links among concerned agencies and their proposed programs; and to advise the Central and State governments, University Grants Commission, universities, and allied educational agencies regarding priorities, policies, plans, and programs (MHRD, 1992).
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The researchers discovered that the problems were related to allied factors such as environment and genetics.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A major NATO headquarters in the United States that planned and led sea operations in the Atlantic
- Specialized
The main NATO military headquarters responsible for protecting the area from Norway to Turkey
A person who is the top military leader of NATO in the North Atlantic region
The NATO headquarters in Europe that gives military advice and leads allied forces
Senior military leader in Europe for NATO who is in charge of all forces there
How Related
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Morphology
Etymology
The word allied comes from Latin ligare, which means 'to bind', and this idea is also in ally and alliance. So when species or fields are allied, they are 'bound together' by similar qualities or a shared origin.